Source: RAJAR/Ipsos MORI/RSMB
According to RAJAR Q3:09 Absolute Radio Network now reaches more target adults in London than Virgin Radio this time last year.
With the re-brand confusion and under-reporting of audience by RAJAR still effecting our published numbers this number is an important milestone.
Just imagine where we will be in another 12 months?
Have a good weekend.
Clive
If so, then tune into Christian O’Connell’s breakfast show tomorrow morning.
David Tennant, the current Doctor Who, is co-hosting the Christian O’Connell Absolute Radio Breakfast Show this week and had a surprise for Christian as he announced that he had a gift for listeners – he has decided to auction off his own bed live on the breakfast show! Tennant is moving house and as part of the process has decided that it is time to give up on his long loved, 22 year-old double bed which he describes as “a nasty old bed that’s seen some action!”
He said, “It’s a bit bed-knobs and broomsticks. It’s got a big tatty brass bedstead which I’d describe as shabby chic. It’s going with the mattress too – it’s the bed that I’ve been sleeping in for the past 15 years. It’s well used and has seen some good times and some action I can tell you, but it’s time for me to move on.”
All proceeds of the auction will be going to a charity close to the Doctor’s heart – Children in Need. Check out the pictures of the bed here.
The playlist is out now.
Stereophonics new song ‘Innocent’ moves up to Absolute Radio’s A-list.
The band will be performing live and taking questions from a live studio audience on The Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show on Tuesday 17th November.
Athlete – Black Swan Song (9th November)
2nd single from the Deptford band’s latest album ‘Black Swan’. The song is written about singer Joel Pott’s grandfather; a paratrooper in the Second World War who was injured in the Battle of Arnhem and held in a German military prison, but lived on until the ripe old age of 84. Athlete performed ‘Black Swan Song’ at this year’s Armistice ceremony (November the 11th, Trafalgar Square) – and all proceeds from the song go to the Royal British Legion.
Keane – Snowed Under (9th November)
This track is available on the deluxe edition of Keane’s ‘Hopes And Fears’ album, which is reissued this week as part of Island Records’ 50th anniversary celebrations. Originally a b-side to ‘Somewhere Only We Know’ its become a firm fan favourite over the years.
David Tennant is co-hosting the breakfast show for the next three days, so this was his welcome this morning.
This week Music Week magazine has published a great story about Absolute Radio’s new stations, dabbl and Absolute ‘80s. In it Clive talks about how the additions to the Absolute Radio portfolio will help to increase overall audience, anticipating more than 250,000 listeners for Absolute ‘80s within it’s first year.
Dabbl has recently secured a DAB spot in London and other areas making it available to around 3 million more potential listeners than Xtreme.
Subscribers can read the full article here.
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